/lit/ - Literature

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not the anon you were replying to, but i think that's more or less accurate. Deleuze deferred to Spinoza ultimately and Land defers to Deleuze also. but Deleuze never wrote anything explicitly on the computer sciences or AI, or took the fragment on machines as far in the direction of automation as Land would.

anyone who wants to seriously engage with Land's work needs to read Amy Ireland's essay on him, it's the best thing ever written about Land stuff not written by Land himself. it's dense but completely brilliant.

>As the producer disappears into the machine, the reader is confronted with increasingly vertiginous challenges to traditional methods of textual consumption. Most alarmingly, the diminishment of human authorship plunges the human reader into a problematics of scale. The sheer length and disconcerting complexity of combinatorial pieces, like the tedious repetition of copied and transcribed texts (both modes of enacting non-narrative violence as a problematization of chronology/ROM) renders them either impossible or entirely unpleasurable to consume in any ordinary manner. It has been argued, particularly in the case of conceptual writing, that the textual demand for both linear and close reading be scrapped in favour of methods more akin to scanning, browsing, and ‘spritzing’. The frenetic, over-stimulated restlessness of such habits escalates quickly as readers become users in an increasingly exploitative relationship with their tools of textual consumption.

https://www.urbanomic.com/document/poememenon/